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“Starting from scratch to looking really clean and professional”: how students’ productive labor legitimizes collegiate esports

Overview of attention for article published in Critical Studies in Media Communication, February 2022
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (86th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
“Starting from scratch to looking really clean and professional”: how students’ productive labor legitimizes collegiate esports
Published in
Critical Studies in Media Communication, February 2022
DOI 10.1080/15295036.2022.2030484
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 24 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 3 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 8%
Student > Bachelor 2 8%
Researcher 2 8%
Other 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 13 54%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 8%
Sports and Recreations 2 8%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 4%
Linguistics 1 4%
Other 4 17%
Unknown 13 54%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 May 2026.
All research outputs
#3,989,453
of 32,960,374 outputs
Outputs from Critical Studies in Media Communication
#75
of 460 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#76,699
of 562,395 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Critical Studies in Media Communication
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,960,374 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 460 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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